A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that
62% of Likely U.S. Voters believe most Christians living in the Islamic
world are treated unfairly because of their religion. Just 17% disagree,
while 21% more are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
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By comparison, 39% feel most Muslims living in the United States are treated unfairly because of their religion. That’s up from 31% last year and is the highest finding in surveys to date.
A plurality (46%) still believes Muslims are not treated unfairly because of their faith, while 15% more are not sure.
Fifty-six percent (56%) of Democrats, however, believe most Muslims in
this country are mistreated, a view shared by only 22% of Republicans
and 39% of voters not affiliated with either major party. Fewer
Democrats (47%) think most Christians are mistreated in the Islamic
world, compared to 76% of GOP voters and 64% of unaffiliateds.
And for those who think women are smarter... they're not - at least when they're Democrats.
Women are more likely than men to think most American Muslims are
mistreated here but less likely to believe Christians are mistreated in
the Islamic world.
Unbelievable....
By the way, note that no one talks about mistreatment of Jews despite study after study that shows that attacks on Jews due to their religion far exceed attacks on persons of any other religion.
Hamas USA marching in Veterans' Day parade in Oklahoma
In 2004, the Committee for American - Islamic Relations (CAIR), a US-based front for Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the trial of the Holy Land Foundation, which was funneling US money to Hamas. Now, the City of Tulsa, Oklahoma (Yipes! I have a cousin there) is honoring CAIR by allowing it to participate in its Veterans' Day parade.
For the first time, Oklahoma Muslims will have a float in the
Veterans Day Parade in downtown Tulsa on Nov. 11, and not all parade
participants are happy about it.
“It’s something we have been wanting to do for years,” said Adam
Soltani, executive director of the Oklahoma Chapter of the Council on
American-Islamic Relations, based in Oklahoma City.
Soltani said the float is sponsored by CAIR-Oklahoma but will
“represent the Oklahoma Muslim community, which is a very diverse
community of people from all walks of life, immigrants, indigenous
people.”
“We support all veterans, and we support our country, so I don’t see
why anyone should have any concerns about CAIR being involved,” he said.
“We are an American Muslim organization, and American Muslims support
their government, support their country and definitely support our
troops who are working to defend our constitutional rights and our
freedoms,” he continued.
Soltani said many U.S. Muslims have served in the armed forces and that two veterans are on the CAIR-Oklahoma board.
Larry Williamson, a member of the Tulsa 912 Project, a conservative
organization, said it is “atrocious” to ask veterans to “march alongside
people who represent our enemies in a current war.”
“I believe all American entrants who the parade is intended to honor
should be made aware as soon as possible that they are being asked to
share their honor with the Muslim Brotherhood, sworn enemy of the United
States and our ally Israel and an enemy in our current war on the
Islamic jihad in which American soldiers are fighting and dying,” he
said in a letter to the Tulsa World.
Williamson said he has been told that his Tulsa 912 Project float is
scheduled to be in line next to the CAIR float in the parade.
“I’m not a spokesman for Tulsa 912, but I won’t march alongside the Muslim Brotherhood,” he said.
Asked why he uses the term Muslim Brotherhood instead of CAIR,
Williamson said the FBI has identified CAIR as an arm of the Muslim
Brotherhood in America. CAIR has consistently stated that it has no
connections with any terrorist groups.
Patsy Varnell, vice president of the Tulsa Veterans Day Parade
Association, confirmed that CAIR-Oklahoma’s application to be in the
parade has been accepted.
13-year old head of Teens for Ted has 36,500 Twitter followers, supports Ted Cruz, shreds Obama
Here's a video well worth seeing. It's by 13-year old CJ Pearson, the head of an organization called Teens for Ted, which supports Ted Cruz (R-Tx) for President of the United States. The video has 1.6 million views since it went up last Wednesday.
Let's go to the videotape.
Much more about CJ and his organization here (Hat Tip: Mrs. Carl).
Radical Islamist terrorists are butchering, burning and beheading their
victims in the name of Islam... But President Obama, seemingly unable to
confront our enemies in the Middle East
and Northern Africa, today turned from the awesome powers of the
presidency to his bully pulpit, to proselytize and persuade Americans to
embrace Muslims in America our president has it seems regressed to his
former role as a community organizer and taken up a new role as the
apologist-in-chief, as he concluded a White House meeting on countering
what he calls violent extremism...
I wonder whether this has anything to do with the fact that President Obama was the last allied leader to call Prime Minister Netanyahu (Hat Tip: Joe L).
President Barack Obama’s approval rating is higher among Muslims than any other religious group, a new poll says.
According to a Gallup poll
released Friday that tracked responses for the first six months of
2014, 72 percent of Muslims said they approve of the president, compared
with just 20 percent who disapprove.
Mormons were the least approving religious group, with 18 percent of
Mormons approving and 78 percent disapproving of the president. Mormons
in the past have ranked as the most conservative major religious group in the U.S.
The survey underscores a religious divide when it comes to
presidential approval — Obama is more popular among non-Christians and
less popular among Christians.
Those who classify as “Other non-Christian” gave the president a 59
percent approval rating, while Jewish Americans gave Obama a 55 percent
approval rating and atheists or those who subscribe to no religion have a
54 percent approval rating.
Catholics, on the other hand, have only a 44 percent approval rating of
Obama, compared with 51 percent disapproval. Protestants and other
Christians are more critical, with 37 percent approving and 58 percent
disapproving.
Yes, Obama is playing to his supporters by not supporting Israel.
#EpicFail: What if they made a 'million Muslim march' and only 21 (you can count 'em) showed up
There was a 'million Muslim march' on the Washington Mall on Wednesday, 9/11/13. You might not have heard about it. Here's an aerial view (above). Can you see them?
Maybe if we move the view closer to the ground, you'll be able to see better.
Looks like there were a few Muslims missing. Maybe they were too busy doing other things.
The group claims: We at AMPAC (American
Political Action Committee) are planning an historic event for 9.11.13
where one million Muslims will march to Washington D.C. and demand that
our civil rights be protected by our government.
We are demanding that laws be enacted protecting our 1st amendment .
We are asking President Obama to fulfill his promise from his first
campaign for Presidency of a transparent government. Lastly we are
asking for the release of the 9/11 commission report to the American
people.
It would be impressive if they did this in Tehran. Or Riyadh. Or any other Islamic capital.
But they’re not doing that.
It’ll be worth having a camera there to see the variety and content of the signs and flags that will surely be flying.
Sounds to me like they need some sensitivity training. Their timing is atrocious.
Khader Abuassab is an unusual name – in fact, there is apparently only
one listed in the United States: he resides in Paterson, New Jersey.
Abuassab was the one who placed ads in Arabic newspapers about the
Palestinian American Day celebration and he texted invitations to
friends, community leaders, politicians and law enforcement officials.
According to Abuassab, South Paterson is known as “little Ramallah,” and
he felt it was important for the Arab Palestinian community to be
recognized much like any other local ethnic community.
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So who is Abuassab?
According to a Feb. 2012 Press TV interview, Khader Abuassab has served on the Paterson Board of Education and has run for City Council.
In the spring of 2012, when an Associated Press series disclosed the practice by the New York Police Department of surveillance of Muslims
at businesses, universities and mosques in the greater New York area,
Khader Abuassab told Muslims not to cooperate with the authorities.
He
was indignant that Muslims, who are “an important part of Paterson’s
diverse community” had been “spied on or suspected.” He declared that
Muslim Americans “certainly don’t have to defend their citizenry to
anyone.”
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In 2002 Khader Abuassab pled guilty
to having racked up more than $615,000 in credit card fraud, using 40
different credit cards to circumvent credit limits on the cards, and
then filing for bankruptcy to erase the debts. Abuassab admitted he had
not intended to pay for the things he charged.
In 2004, Abuassab was sentenced to 13 months in prison, with two
additional years of supervised release. In addition, Abuassab was
ordered by the federal district court judge in New Jersey to pay
$620,000 in restitution. No information was readily available about what
Abuassab had originally used the money for, and whether it had all been
paid back.
What is known is that after sentencing, Abuassab sought a delay of his incarceration date so that he could “travel to Mecca.” That request was denied by the government.
The raising of a flag at City Hall on Sunday was like any of the
dozen or so similar events held in the city each year in a nod to its
diversity.
Except it wasn’t.
That’s because the flag raised — for the first time in Paterson, and
possibly at any city hall in the United States — was Palestinian.
Symbols or assertions of Palestinian statehood are fraught with
political sensitivities, and Khader Abuassab, the event’s organizer,
said he received harassing phone calls before Sunday’s event.
But no problems were on display Sunday when the flag was raised in the rain before elected officials and about 150 people. People cheered, danced, shared sweets and shouted, “Long Live Palestine.”
“Palestine is our country and we are proud of that,” said Clifton
resident Salwa Ramadan. “We’re happy [to be] recognized finally.”
Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr., D-Paterson, and Assemblyman Thomas
Giblin, D-Clifton, showed up — with Pascrell presenting a letter of
Special Congressional Recognition and Giblin presenting an Assembly
resolution marking the event.
I have been told that a 'letter of Special Congressional Recognition' is something that any Congresscritter has the right to present. So is Congress now endorsing the jihad against the Jews?
American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) has announced that they will be
holding a four-day event called the "Conference for Palestine in the US:
A Movement United" in suburban Chicago from November 22-25.
Turkish Airlines is reportedly one of the major corporate sponsors of
the conference, scheduled to take place at the Oak Brook Hills Marriott
Resort. The official state carrier of Turkey will be contributing as
much as $15,000 for the event and, in order to encourage attendance, has
announced that the “first 200 registrants will be entered into a raffle
to win an international airline ticket from Turkish Airlines.”
The online mission statement of American Muslims for Palestine calls for
attention to be brought to "the people of Palestine who have been
living under occupation for decades," adding that, "we believe once
Americans know the truth that their tax dollars support the
longest-lasting and the last military occupation in modern history, they
won’t stand for it and will demand that Congress change our foreign
policy in the Middle East to one that is more balanced."
In an article on September 24, author Michael Rubin of Commentary
Magazine said, "American Muslims for Palestine is not any ordinary
organization. Its home page depicts the conference logo—a map of
Palestine made from birds showing the Palestinian state encompassing all
of Israel. So much for the two-state solution."
"The AMP conference is due to feature Fadwa Barghouti, wife of
imprisoned terrorist Marwan Barghouti, currently serving five life
sentences for murder. For several years, the AMP has worked to promote
nakba (catastrophe) commemorations on college campuses, with a goal to
delegitimize Israel’s existence. The group’s national campus coordinator
moved to disrupt a speech by the Israeli ambassador at UC-Irvine back
in 2010. "
Read the whole thing. Maybe once the election is over, they can announce that Hussein Obama is addressing them too.
Surprise? White House admits to 'hundreds' of meetings with Muslim Brotherhood's US arm
Shavua tov, a good week to everyone.
I can't wait to see how all the Jewish Apologists for Obama (JAPO's™) try to explain this away (thanks to all who sent in). Members of the Obama administration have been meeting regularly with CAIR, which is the US branch of the Muslim Brotherhood.
The admission of meetings with the Council on American-Islamic Relations came from George Selim, the White House’s new director for community partnerships, which was formed in January to ensure cooperation by law enforcement and social service agencies with Muslim identity groups in the United States.
“There is hundreds of examples of departments and agencies that meet with CAIR on a range of issues,” he told The Daily Caller, after being asked if his office refuses to meet with any Muslim groups.
CAIR is “the group with the worst record of deception and the deepest ties to terrorists,” said Steven Emerson, the director of the Investigative Project on Terrorism, which tracks the public activities of Islamist lobbying groups.
“The White House is so clueless and/or compromised” when dealing with the brotherhood, said Robert Spencer, the author of several books about Islam and jihad. CAIR, he said, is “the political front of a radically repressive, Jew-hating, woman-hating organization.”
The House of Representatives last month prodded the Department of Justice to end all contacts with CAIR.
“The [appropriations] committee understands that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has an existing policy prohibiting its employees from engaging in any formal non-investigative cooperation with CAIR [and] the committee encourages the attorney general to adopt a similar policy for all department officials,” said the committee report accompanying the 2013 Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations bill, passed in mid-May by the House.
TheDC interviewed Selim during a June 7 State Department conference on diversity that was hosted by the Office of the Special Representative to Muslim Communities.
After he admitted the extensive ties, Selim declined to explain further. He walked away, but returned to insist to TheDC that it cannot record his comments.
The office’s deputy director, Adnan Kifayat, also berated TheDC for taping the interview with Selim. “That was wrong… it is really bad form,” he said.
“You’re putting a career at risk by asking [questions] without telling him… you cannot ambush people and expect them to actually cooperate,” Kifayet said, adding that TheDC could have committed a felony by recording Selim when he was using a cellphone shortly before the interview.
When are American Jews going to admit that this Muslim-loving President is hostile to them and to their interests?
NJ-9 gets uglier: Muslim voters call to 'get rid of the Jew'
Shavua tov v'chodesh tov, a good week and a good month to everyone (I am adding the month because we did not sanctify the moon until tonight - the skies were cloudy when the holiday ended on Sunday).
I have mentioned NJ-9 - a 'reconstituted' congressional district in which I used to reside - before. The Democratic primary in that district features two incumbent Congressman: Steve Rothman, who is Jewish, and Bill Pascrell, who actually represented the part of the district in which I lived, and who is an original member of the 'Gaza 54.' Already in this race, Pascrell refused to disavow a supporter who accused Rothman of dual loyalty in a newspaper op-ed.
Now, the race is getting really ugly. The primary is this coming Tuesday, and Adam Kredo reports that the Muslims in the district - a couple of towns over from where I used to live - say they want to 'get the Jew out of office' (Hat Tip: Pam Geller via Bad Blue).
The race took an unprecedented turn on Monday when an Arabic campaign poster supporting Pascrell surfaced. It urged the “Arab diaspora community” to “elect the friend of the Arabs” and billed the race as “the most important election in the history of the [Arab] community,” according to a WFB translation of the sign.
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“I don’t read Arabic well, but I am pretty sure that the pro-Pascrell posters that have appeared across the district are not calling to elect the candidate who supports a strong relationship between America and the only democracy in the Middle East, one which is rooted in progressive Western values—women’s rights, gay rights, tolerance, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, etc.,” said Josh Block, a Democratic strategist and former spokesman for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
Observers such as Susan Rosenbluth, publisher of the New Jersey-based Jewish Voice and Opinion, say the race took an anti-Semitic turn in late February, when a prominent Arab supporter of Pascrell accused the state’s Jewish voters of being more loyal to Israel than America.
“Unquestionably, this primary election is pitting two otherwise harmoniously coexisting communities: the Muslim and Jewish communities,” Aref Assaf, president of the New Jersey-based American Arab Forum, wrote in a New Jersey Star-Ledger column headlined “Rothman is Israel’s man in District 9.”
“As total and blind support for Israel becomes the only reason for choosing Rothman, voters who do not view the elections in this prism will need to take notice. Loyalty to a foreign flag is not loyalty to America’s,” Assaf wrote.
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Most disturbing, said Rosenbluth and others, is that Pascrell has remained silent, refusing to condemn the charges of dual loyalty.
“I called Pascrell’s office and asked, ‘Will you condemn it?’ ” Rosenbluth said. “They said, ‘We didn’t write it.’”
As Election Day approaches in the tight race, Assaf again has taken to the pages of the New Jersey Star-Ledger to rally the Arab community.
“The more we vote this year, the more important our community will be in future elections,” Assaf wrote Wednesday. “In New Jersey’s Ninth District race between Pascrell and Rothman, our vote will be of pivotal significance to the outcome.”
In a separate column released Monday, Assaf referred to the city of Paterson a “Little Jerusalem,” and deemed “the root of the conflict” in the race as lying “thousands of miles from Paterson, in the heart of the Middle East.”
Assaf went on to make several unfounded claims about what he said is Rothman’s “misdirected commitment” to Israel.
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Pascrell also has embraced Imam Mohammad Qatanani, a controversial Passaic spiritual leader who stands accused by the State Department of hiding a conviction in Israel for having ties to the terror group Hamas.
Last Friday, Pascrell held a high profile event at a local mosque where he was joined by Rep. Keith Ellison (D., Minn), a prominent ally of the fringe group J Street and the first Muslim member of Congress.
Pascrell, too, has come under fire for his association with J Street. In 2010, the lawmaker endorsed the so-called “Gaza 54” letter, which demanded that President Obama force Israel to end its “collective punishment” of those living in the Gaza Strip. It is a vote that Pascrell has said he “doesn’t regret.”
“By campaigning so hard with one group, were Congressman Pascrell to win reelection, it seems that his marginally supportive voting record on Israel may take a turn for the worst and become openly hostile,” said the New Jersey-based political operative.
Others are worried that the pro-Israel and Jewish community will suffer if Pascrell is victorious.
“If Pascrell gets in, I’m very worried and concerned because he’s broken many bridges with the Jewish community,” said Rosenbluth. “I resent him turning his back in such a blatant way on the Jewish community.”
Someone please tell me three things:
1. That the Republicans have a good candidate in NJ-9.
2. That the Emergency Committee for Israel will target Pascrell.
3. That the member of the Passaic Jewish community who used to go around soliciting members of the community to support Pascrell has finally stopped.
Muslim screaming 'Allah is great' arrested on Continental flight to Houston
A Continental Airlines flight from Portland to Houston turned back to Portland on Tuesday night when a couple of - no not Amish - Muslims got 'agitated.'
Waiting for Obama to apologize in 4... 3... 2... 1...
According to a Gallup poll released last month, 80% of American Jews have favorable views of American Muslims. Seventy percent believe that they are not supportive of al-Qaida. These data indicate that American Jews are second only to American Muslims in their support for Muslim Americans. Indeed 6% more American Jews than American Muslims believe that American Muslims face prejudice due to their religion.
American Jewish championing of American Muslims is disconcerting when compared with American Jewish treatment of the philo-Semitic Evangelical Christians. Matthew Knee discussed this issue in depth in a recent article published at the Legal Insurrection website.
In a 2003 Pew survey, 42% of American Jews expressed antagonism towards Evangelical Christians. In a 2004 American National Election Study, Jews on average rated Evangelical Christians at 30 out of 100 on a "feeling thermometer," where 1 was cold and 100 was hot.
A 2005 American Jewish Committee survey found that Jews assessed that following Muslims, Evangelical Christians have the highest propensity for being anti-Semites. And yet, in the same 2004 American National Election Survey, Evangelical Christians rated Jews an average of 82 on the 1- 100 feelings scale. Evangelical Christians rated Catholics at 80.
Consistent survey data show that levels of anti- Semitism among Evangelical Christians is either the same as or slightly lower than the national average. According to a 2007 ADL survey, the US average is 15%.
There is a clear disparity between survey data on anti-Semitism among various American ethnic groups and American Jews' assessment of the prevalence of anti-Semitism among the same groups. The AJC survey found that American Jews believed that 29% of Evangelicals are largely anti- Semitic. They assessed that only 7% of Hispanics and 19% of African-Americans are anti-Semites.
As it works out, their perceptions are completely incorrect. According to the 2007 ADL survey, foreign born Hispanics, and African-Americans, harbor significantly stronger anti-Semitic views than the national average. Twenty-nine percent of foreign born Hispanics harbor very anti-Semitic views. Thirty-two percent of African-Americans harbor deeply anti-Semitic views.
Like Jews, Hispanics, African-Americans and Muslims vote disproportionately for the Democratic Party. Evangelical Christians on the other hand, are reliably Republican. A 2009 survey on US anti- Semitism conducted by the Institute for Jewish and Community Research in San Francisco found that Democrats are more likely to be anti-Semitic than Republicans.
The Gallup survey from last month showing American Jews' deep support for American Muslims is of particular interest because that support stands in stark contrast with survey data concerning American Jewish perception of Muslim American anti-Semitism.
Read the whole thing. The post by Matthew Knee of Legal Insurrection, which is cited by Caroline extensively, is here.
A majority of US Muslims are content with the nation's direction in contrast to many Americans and few Muslims believe there is support for Islamic extremism here, a survey released on Tuesday found.
With the 10th anniversary of the al-Qaida attacks on New York and the Pentagon approaching, the Pew Research Center found that most Muslims felt ordinary Americans were friendly or neutral toward them.
In contrast to the majority of the general public dissatisfied with the nation's direction, 56 percent of the estimated 2.75 million American Muslims said they are satisfied, the survey showed. Seven out of 10 view President Barack Obama's tenure favorably.
"On a variety of measures, Muslims in America are very content with their own lives and with the communities where they live," Pew researcher Greg Smith said in an interview.
Four out of five Muslim Americans surveyed were satisfied with the way things are going in their lives and rated their communities very positively as places to live.
"We've seen Muslims move in a different direction than the rest of the country (with more) believing America is going in the right direction," Smith said.
'Islamophobia,' you ask? Even most Muslims admit there's no such thing.
Since 2007, there has been little change in how Muslim Americans see how they are viewed by the rest of America, with 28 percent saying other Americans viewed them suspiciously and 22 percent saying they had been called offensive names. Only 6 percent said they had been threatened or attacked, while 38 percent were bothered by their sense that they were singled out for increased government surveillance.
In response to questions about being a Muslim in the United States since the September 11 attacks, 55 percent said it is more difficult while 37 percent saw no change.
Two-thirds of those survey said the quality of life for Muslims in the United States is better than in most Muslim countries.
In 2007 only one-quarter of Muslim Americans believed the US-led war on terrorism was sincere, while 43 percent surveyed this year believed the effort was sincere.
And a couple of other things that might be of interest:
The general level of satisfaction among American Muslims was reflected in the 76 percent who approved of Obama's performance as president - nine out of 10 said they voted for the Democrat in 2008. Muslim support for Obama contrasts with unfavorable views of his Republican predecessor, George W. Bush.
There are an estimated 1.8 million Muslim adults in the United States, including US-born converts, a 300,000 increase since 2007. Two-thirds were born in other countries.
Hmmm. Obama's even lost support among Muslims, and you can bet he's never going to pass any immigration reform.
Here's good news for Israel: The average American - who is not a loud mouthed liberal - is not being taken in by Muslim propaganda.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 17% of Likely U.S. Voters believe that most Muslims in America are treated unfairly because of their religion and ethnicity. Sixty-three percent (63%) disagree and say they are not treated unfairly while 20% are not sure. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
A plurality (49%) of liberal voters, however, says there is bias against Muslim Americans. Eighty-one percent (81%) of conservatives and 57% of moderates disagree.
But only 10% of all voters think American Muslims are speaking out enough against potential terrorist attacks in the United States. Fifty-seven percent (57%) disagree and say they are not speaking out enough. One-in-three voters (34%) are not sure.
Those figures are similar to those found in a survey of all adults in September 2009. At that time, 15% believed that Muslims in this country were speaking out and 46% said they were not.
That means that there are an awful lot of people out there who believe that there is bias against Muslims but it's not unfair. Hmmm.
Make sure you read the whole thing. The contrast between what he calls the 'political class' and 'mainstream America' is stunning. Here's hoping mainstream America throws the political class out in 2012.
I suspect we're going to see a lot more demonstrations like this one as Americans wake up to the reality of what's going on in their midst. Sharia law won't be imposed easily in the United States.
Let's go to the videotape.
By the way, I got the video via two Lefty blogs. They're quite upset about it. I wonder why.
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